Each staff member has their own hours and time off, and customers can only book times when someone is free.
Working hours
- Open Bookings → Staff and press Add staff member, or open an existing one.
- Fill in the Name, and optionally an Email (they get an email for each new booking) and About (shown to visitors choosing who to book with).
- Under Working hours, set the hours for each day. You can add up to three ranges a day, so a lunch break is the gap between two. Leave a day empty when they don't work.
- Tick the Services they provide, keep Taking bookings ticked, and save.
Times are in your site's time zone, set under Settings → Language & time.
Time off
After saving a staff member, a Time off section appears on their page:
- For whole days off, such as a holiday: set From and Until (included). Leave Until empty for a single day.
- For a few hours on one day, such as an appointment elsewhere: also set From time and Until time.
- Add a Note like "Holiday" so your team knows why.
Bookings that would overlap time off aren't offered.
Days the whole business is closed
Use Bookings → Booking settings → Closed days for public holidays or a summer break.
Other settings that shape availability (Booking settings → Times)
- Offer a start every: how often a booking can start, such as every 15 minutes.
- Minimum notice (hours) and Bookable ahead (days).
Each service can also have Free time before and Free time after, to get ready or tidy up.